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Gary et al
I was part of the 22 percent, but have never been unhappy with the contract, just felt we could have cleaned things up a bit better and improved language in certain areas and if it took a few months to get that I was willing to wait. At the time there was never a better time to be in negotiations, other than the fact the Trump administration would never let us strike. Problem I did fear was that it probably wouldn't be a few months because there wouldn't be a cohesive reason from the group of what to fix, and that was probably the reality. But again I'm not one who is unhappy with the contract, and given that a pandemic came and upended the industry, we are lucky we did it when we did. So thanks
That kind of would have depended on the % no vote. 51-49 no would have been a 3-4 month delay to gain whatever issues polling revealed, within reason. Money would have to be moved around because the total economic value would not have changed much. Now a large no % and the negotiating committee as well as most of the mec would need to be replaced. That’s close to a year or More. Costing tens of thousands per pilot on average and taking a decade at least to make up if you still had that long. The whole time gambling there’s no 2001,2007, or 2020. I can tell you almost every language issue that existed in the previous agreement have been fixed. Now some will be revealed in the new agreement but nothing like before. Expanded definitions, examples and negotiation recordings will help.They’ll just need to be worked out through the grievance process which has also been fixed.